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Erwin Olaf Springveld was born on 2 June 1959 in Hilversum in the Netherlands.
(Erwin Olaf s art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the ...)
Erwin Olaf s art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the overlooked, that typically resists easy documentation. Olaf s trademark is to address social issues, taboos, and bourgeois conventions in a highly stylized and cunning mode of image making. Alongside new and unpublished work, this book shows an overview of all the personal work that Olaf made during the past 25 years.
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Published on the occasion of exhibitions at the Hague Museum of Photography and the Institut Neerlandais Paris. Full-page illustrations in colour. Text by Jonathan Turner. Bilingual edition English-French.
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Erwin Olaf, one of the best know and most over-the-top Dutch photographers of today--think David LaChapelle crossed with Playboy)--lives a passionate, lusty affair with life, enjoying it to the fullest extent, a true gastronome of the art of living. His oeuvre stands as a manifestation of this very passion and of his very genuine engagement with his subjects. Over the last 25 years, he has evolved from a photographer who captures reality to a director who creates it; either way, the depicted reality is one filled with humor, imagination, sexuality, and exuberance, raising issues of freedom, beauty, loneliness, and difference. A master who can generate his own, perverse world through autonomous photographic series, grandiose parties, and film projects alike, he is also hypercritical, an artist from whom nothing escapes. Thus his fictions are convincing, his images full of bygone days, fairytales, and dreams, populated by historical figures, elves, dwarves, lunati! cs, and creatures that defy easy description. Essays by William Elia, Jonathan Turner and Ruud Schenk. ~Foreword by Kees van Twist.
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Imitation decors with muted colours, reminding the viewer of bygone post-war interiors, and technicolour films form the backdrop for a collection of icy and solitary figures, fixed in time as a series of eerie advertisements for loneliness. The two series of works presented here, a total of 20 photographs all counted, represent a new ambitious direction for this Dutch photographer.
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"Vermeer Noir" might be an apt description of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's disquieting image repertoire. His subjects are posed indoors, immobile, somewhat in reverie and bathed in nearby window light--but not tranquilly so. An atmosphere of sinister but clinical indifference attends both them and their environments, rendering them into beautiful but dislocated mannequins in catalogue-furnished interiors. All sense of belonging to a place is eliminated. Each richly colored and sleekly composed image offers a sly reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell-like iconography and characters, manifesting a nostalgia that both burlesques and celebrates America of the 1950s and 60s. Dramatic emotions are hinted at but left ambiguous; certainly nothing in the models' surroundings suggests a cause. Here, across three themes of Hope, Grief and Rain, Olaf blends mid-century Modern and Noir in the lens of contemporary fashion. Avocado greens, golden-hued oranges and subtle lilacs brighten and deaden simultaneously, sending an irresolvable tension through his scenarios like an electric current. This tension, strung between the polar effects of zing and muteness, is the line Olaf treads in his pictures. As a whole, the work defines what critic Jonathan Turner usefully describes as "Olaf's recent fascination with the visual representation of such emotions as loss, loneliness and quiet despair... He plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope and joy are lost." The book comes with a DVD.
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Erwin Olaf Springveld was born on 2 June 1959 in Hilversum in the Netherlands.
Springveld is most famous for his commercial and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi"s, Microsoft and Nokia. Some of his most famous photographic series include "Grief", "Rain", and "Royal Blood".
Never one to shy away from controversy, Springveld"s work is often daring and provocative.
Humorously however, one of his early photographs was once expelled from a show on the basis of not containing nudity. Springveld studied journalism in the School of Journalism in Utrecht.
Springveld designed the 2014 Dutch euro coins with the portrait of King Willem-Alexander.
(Erwin Olaf, one of the best know and most over-the-top Du...)
(Imitation decors with muted colours, reminding the viewer...)
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(Erwin Olaf s art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the ...)
(Published on the occasion of exhibitions at the Hague Mus...)
("Vermeer Noir" might be an apt description of Dutch photo...)